Challenges 2010

Current Challenges

Orbis Terrarum Challenge (November 2010)
Rules ** Introduction Post

1. Dreams of Trespass – Fatima Mernissi
2. Things I’ve Been Silent About – Azar Nafisi
3. The Icarus Girl – Helen Oyeyemi
4. A Personal Matter – Kenzaburo Oe
5. Beside the Sea – Véronique Olmi
6. Palace Walk – Naguib Mahfouz
7. [yet to read]
8. [yet to read]

1% Well-Read Challenge III (30 April 2011)
Rules ** Introduction Post

1. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
2. Candide – Voltaire
3. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
4. Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
5. Animal Farm – George Orwell
6. [yet to read]
7. [yet to read]
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Daphne du Maurier Challenge (May 13, 2010- April 19, 2011)
Rules

1. [yet to read]
2. [yet to read]
3. [yet to read]

Jane Austen Challenge (31 December 2010)
Rules ** Introduction Post

Books by Jane Austen:

1. Sanditon
2. [yet to read]
3. [yet to read]
4. [yet to read]

Re-writes, Prequels, Sequels, etc:

1. Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters – Ben H. Winters
2. Vampire Darcy’s Desire – Regina Jeffers
3. Me and Mr. Darcy – Alexandra Potter
4. Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict – Laurie Viera Rigler

Typically British Challenge (31 December 2010)
Rules ** Introduction Post

1. Sanditon – Jane Austen
2. Solar – Ian McEwan
3. The Wise Virgins – Leonard Woolf
4. Ballet Shoes – Noel Streatfeild
5. [yet to read]
6. [yet to read]

Finished and Abandoned Challenges

Women Unbound Challenge (Finished)
Rules ** Introduction Post

1. Desert Flower – Waris Dirie
2. Theorizing Gender – Rachel Alsop, Annette Fitzsimons and Kathleen Lennon
3. Gender and the Politics of History – Joan Wallach Scott
4. Dreams of Trespass – Fatima Mernissi
5. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
6. Things I’ve Been Silent About – Azar Nafisi
7. Journey From The Land Of No – Roya Hakakian
8. Under Western Eyes – Chandra Talpade Mohanty

The 1930′s mini-challenge (Finished)
Rules

1. Ballet Shoes – Noel Streatfeild

Japanese Literature Challenge (Finished)
Rules

1. A Personal Matter – Kenzaburo Oe

China Challenge (Abandoned)
Rules ** Introduction Post

1. Red Dust – Ma Jian
2. Miss Chopsticks – Xinran

World Religion Challenge (Abandoned)
Rules ** Introduction Post

1. Making Saints. Inside the Vatican: Who Become Saints, Who Do Not, And Why… – Kenneth L. Woodward